Little Pumpkins Nursery - East Croydon

One of the most valuable features for me is the daily photos and personalised observations uploaded to the app. These updates help me understand what my son has been doing, how he is progressing and how he interacts with other children his age. The photos are a wonderful way to feel involved in his daily experiences and provide real reassurance that he is happy, active and well cared for. I am very pleased with the nursery and the positive experience it provides for my son.

Really nice place, excellent people who work there. They put there time and effort to make the children as comfortable and safe as possible. Nice healthy and fresh food for the children as well. My child has developed so much from this nursery I'm really glad that we choose it.

My Son has been attending the nursery for nearly three years now and he loves it! He is always excited to go in which has been nothing but a comfort for us as parents. The ladies are very caring, engaging and provide a safe environment. Any previous issues they have acted quickly and the nursery is in a good place. Thank you all for everything you have done for Cason over the years from Joe and Ash!

We are so grateful for this wonderful nursery. Our baby started here at just 6 months old and is now 16 months old. From the very beginning, the Teddy's staff have been incredibly caring, kind, and supportive, making us feel completely at ease. Our little one absolutely loves going every day, which says everything about the warm and nurturing environment they provide. It's been amazing to see his confidence and development grow. Thank you to the whole team for your dedication and outstanding care.

Not too overwhelming for them in decor and getting them in, in the mornings too. So if my daughter has a bad start. She's always ok when she's in there. So it's a really nice feeling.

Positive experience with key practitioners and the leadership team. The staff are always warm and welcoming and share an amazing bond with our little one. They share the daily care like meal times and nappy changes through an app which h helps me plan my evening meals. We recoeve a daily news post about what our daughters class has done throughout the day and they hold lots of fun days where we can join in like a recent father's day picnic tea where we could go in for a bite to eat alongside our daughter and have time with other parents- mothers and other relatives were able to join too. They always celebrate everyone's cultures and religions and make everyone feel included. I would 100 percent recommend Little Pumpkins

"My son has had a wonderful experience at this nursery. The staff are caring, patient, and genuinely invested in the children's development. He's grown in confidence, made friends, and looks forward to going in every day. The communication with parents is great, and the activities are always thoughtful and engaging. We're really grateful for the support and couldn't be happier with the nursery."

Little Pumpkin is the only place where my son happily waves goodbye to me...and sometimes forgets I exist for a full 5 seconds!

I am extremely concerned about the lack of transparency at Little Pumpkins Nursery. A safeguarding incident took place in the preschool room and parents were not informed at all and that the police are involved. Heading this from parents is completely unacceptable and goes against the basic expectations families have for communication and safety.

There also continues to be serious instability within the nursery. Managers keep leaving, other staff are following, and this constant turnover is affecting the quality of care. It's becoming harder and harder to trust the leadership or get clear answers to important questions.

On top of this, there seems to be more focus on money than on providing a stable, safe environment for the children. They have even lost a nursery that was already rated "requires improvement," which raises major concerns about how the organisation is being run overall.

Parents deserve honesty, consistency, and a childcare setting that puts children's wellbeing first

Care was poor. My son often came home in wet clothes and socks and was constantly ill. On one occasion he was sent home in the wrong nappy size, causing rashes and red marks. This is basic childcare, and they failed

Our son went to Little Pumpkins from the age of 1 and left just before he was 3 as we were sadly moving a bit further away. The staff have always been so wonderful and caring towards him and his language and development came on so much after starting. He loved the food and the activities and we got to see photo updates of his day through the app. The management team are fantastic and always available if you need to speak and it feels like such a personal service. They all took so much time getting to know him at the beginning and helped him settle in quickly. It’s a really personal nursery where everyone from the key workers to the owners knew our son really well. We were so sad when he left as they’ve been amazing.

My daughter went to this nursery for about 1.5 years. She saw many different staff members and management due to the high turnover. She became regularly unhappy to go and the new faces every week did not help this. The staff were very unhappy, the children were unhappy and the level of care was low. It had such great potential to be a very good nursery however there were many management issues and this caused my child to be regularly distressed. They said they had this everywhere however other nurseries I visited had a way lower turnover of staff which spoke volumes. My daughter now goes to a much better nursery and the change in her energy to go to the new one has been amazing. I would not recommend this nursery at all.

A lovely new and really nicely renovated nursery but apart from that, it has been a less than fortunate experience having our child at this nursery. On more than one occasion we have had safeguarding issues because of the amount of unexplained bruises our child would come home with. It has the potential to be an amazing nursery, but in the end, we had to remove our child due to safety concerns. In the time our child has attended the nursery there have been too many changes in staff which have not supported our child's needs. We were promised many things when we attended our initial introduction one being that a chef that would prepare the children's meals. This was not the case. We really started to see things worsen when staffing issues resulted in combining the children of mixed age groups into one space at the basement level.

My two-year-old daughter attends this nursery and I couldn’t be happier. The staff are amazing and very attentive, my child always looks forward to going to nursery every morning. The building is well refurbished compared to other nurseries I visited in the area. I can’t recommend Little Pumpkins enough.

We are so happy with the care and education that Little Pumpkins provide for our daughter! She started and was quite nervous, as was I, but after a couple of weeks doesn’t look back and talks about her friends and what she’s been up to and it is clear that she is stimulated and encouraged to be herself which I really like! I have noticed a huge difference in her confidence after lockdown and I am so pleased we chose Little Pumpkins! She is learning social skills and this is helping her confidence, I feel the staff have welcomed us and taken the time to understand her, and she is loved and cared for in a spotlessly clean environment! And she is very happy about the food!

Would definitely recommend it!!

We couldn’t be happier with Little Pumpkins and highly recommended them.

My son has been attending Little Pumpkins at East Croydon since the beginning of January 2021 and I am so happy with my choice of nursery. The nursery itself is immaculate, so clean, nice decor and a great selection of toys for kids to play with a nice outdoor garden too! The staff have been amazing, my son has settled in nicely and you can tell they all love the job and really care about each individual child. I would highly recommend this nursery it was everything I personally was looking for.